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We study the consequences of Entanglement Wedge Nesting for CFTs with holographic duals. The CFT is formulated on an arbitrary curved background, and we include the effects of curvature-squared couplings in the bulk. In this setup we find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Chris Akers , Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Stefan Leichenauer , Adam Levine , Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam

Using a simple analytic approach, we study the universal properties of second-order phase transition in holographic superconductor models. We explore a general model in arbitrary dimensions in which the condensation occurs via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-03 Chiang-Mei Chen , Ming-Fan Wu

We analyze the dynamical response functions of strongly interacting quantum critical states described by conformal field theories (CFTs). We construct a self-consistent holographic model that incorporates the relevant scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert C. Myers , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa

The phase diagram and symmetry breaking patterns of a holographic CFT with U(1)$\times$SU(2) symmetry are analyzed using the simplest holographic action, namely Einstein-Yang-Mills (YM) theory with a negative cosmological constant. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Matti Järvinen , Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Edwan Préau

The quantum null energy condition (QNEC) is a conjectured relation between a null version of quantum field theory energy and derivatives of quantum field theory von Neumann entropy. In some cases, divergences cancel between these two terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Zicao Fu , Donald Marolf

The purpose of this report is to provide a framework for defining phase transition processes in two dimensional holographic superconductors, and to illustrate how they are useful to be described by holographic entanglement entropy. We study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 Davood Momeni , Kairat Myrzakulov , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We first present an analysis of infinitesimal null deformations for the entanglement entropy, which leads to a major simplification of the proof of the $C$, $F$ and $A$-theorems in quantum field theory. Next, we study the quantum null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Horacio Casini , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Gonzalo Torroba

A strongly coupled confining gauge theory with a non-zero vacuum angle undergoing a deconfinement to confinement phase transition is studied in the holographic gravitational description. A simplified five-dimensional setup is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Rashmish K. Mishra

In earlier work, we studied holographic entanglement entropy in QCD phases using a dynamical Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity model whose dual boundary theory mimics essential features of QCD above and below deconfinement. The model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Subhash Mahapatra

The Improved Quantum Null Energy Condition (INEC) was recently derived from the (restricted) quantum focusing conjecture (QFC), and is a statement about the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) of field theories in Minkowski space-time. It is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Ido Ben-Dayan , Ayushi Srivastava

Holographic studies of the entanglement entropy of field theories dual to charged and neutral black holes in asymptotically global AdS4 spacetimes are presented. The goal is to elucidate various properties of the quantity that are peculiar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-07 Clifford V. Johnson

We study holographic superconductor model with two scalar fields coupled to one single Maxwell field in the AdS soliton background away from the probe limit. We disclose properties of phase transitions mostly from the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-14 Yan Peng , Guohua Liu

Holographic screens are the generalization of the event horizon of a black hole in entropic force scheme, which are defined by setting Newton potential $\phi$ constant, \textit{i. e.} $e^{2\phi}=c=$const. By demonstrating that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-26 Wei-Jian Jiang , Yi-Xin Chen , Jian-Long Li

We derive new families of quantum null energy inequalities (QNEIs), i.e. bounds on integrated null energy, in quantum field theories in two and higher dimensions. These are universal, state-independent lower bounds on semi-local integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Jackson R. Fliss , Andrew Rolph

The entanglement properties of the phase transition in a two dimensional harmonic lattice, similar to the one observed in recent ion trap experiments, are discussed both, for finite number of particles and thermodynamical limit. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elisabeth Rieper , Janet Anders , Vlatko Vedral

We study a holographic model realizing an "antiferromagnetic" phase in which a global SU(2) symmetry representing spin is broken down to a U(1) by the presence of a finite electric charge density. This involves the condensation of a neutral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Nabil Iqbal , Hong Liu , Márk Mezei , Qimiao Si

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the Lechner-Hauke-Zoller model. An analytic expression for the free-energy and critical coefficients for finite-size systems and in the thermodynamic limit are derived and numerically verified.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Andreas Hartmann , Wolfgang Lechner

Based on gauge-gravity duality, by using holographic entanglement entropy, we have done a phenomenological study to probe confinement-deconfinement phase transition in the QCD-like gauge theory. Our outcomes are in perfect agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 M Lezgi , M. Ali-Akbari

We present a comprehensive study of the thermodynamic phase structure for Anti-de Sitter black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-power-Yang-Mills gravity, reformulated through holographic duality as an ensemble problem in the dual conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan

We conjecture that the confinement- deconfinement phase transition in QCD at large number of colors $N$ and $N_f\ll N$ at $T\neq 0$ and $\mu\neq 0$ is triggered by the drastic change in $\theta$ behavior. The conjecture is motivated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky